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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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1. A figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea.






2. The narrator is outside of the story and tells the story from the perspective of only one character.






3. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.






4. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.






5. A figure of speech in which two completely unlike things are compared.






6. A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a seperate stanza in a poem.






7. Words and phrases that vividly recreate a sound - sight - smell - touch - or taste for the reader by appealing to the senses.






8. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.






9. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.






10. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.






11. The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and acharacters of a work.






12. A character struggles with himself/herself and his/her opposing needs.






13. A technique in which words - phrases - or sounds are repeated for emphasis.






14. Then narrator is a character in the story and tells the reader his/her story using the pronoun 'I'.






15. The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.






16. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.






17. A brief witty poem - often satirical.






18. A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.






19. The person who 'tells' the story.






20. A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote.






21. A character struggles against some outside force.






22. An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one.






23. A figure of speech involving exaggeration.






24. A short saying with a moral.






25. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.






26. The emotion or feeling a word creates.






27. The traditional beliefs and customsof a group of people that have been passed down orally.






28. A figure of speech in which two things are compared using 'like' or 'as'.






29. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist.






30. The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue.






31. A struggle or clash between opposing characters - forces - or emotions.






32. The vantage point from which the writer tells the story.






33. A phrase or expression that has been repeated so often it has lost its significance.






34. The organizational form of a literary work.






35. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.






36. The reason the author has written a piece of literature.


37. The selection of words in a literary work.






38. Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable.






39. What a story or play is about.






40. The point after the climax where the action begins to drop off and the events of the plot become clear or are explained in some way.






41. A customary feature of a literary work - such as the use of a chorus in Greek tragedy - the inclusion of an explicit moral in a fable - or the use of a particular rhyme scheme in a villanelle.






42. A tension created as the reader becomes involved in a story and when the author leaves the reader in doubt about what is coming next.






43. A six-line unit of verse constituting a stanza or section of a poem.






44. A concrete representation of a sense impression - a feeling - or an idea.






45. A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.






46. The difference between what is expected and what actually happens.






47. A character who contrsts and parallels the main character in a play or story.






48. Prose writing about real people - places - and events.






49. A speech delivered while only one character is on stage; it reveals a character's innermost thoughts and feelings.






50. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.